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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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